Muscle beater



H. L. BEVIER MUSCLE BEATER A ril 26, 1927.

Filed Jan. 22, 1925 INVENTOR. A fie/44am 06- M BY .(JMA

ATTORNEYS.

Patented Apr. 26, 1927.

UNITED STATES HUTCHINSON L. BEVIER, OF DULUTH, MINNESOTA.

MUSCLE BEATER.

Application filed January 22, 1925. Serial No. 4,011.

My invention relates to muscle heaters and has for its object theprovision of a simple, desirable, and convenient device of the classreferred to. It consists of the structures,

combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described andclaimed.

In the drawings, Fig. 1, is a central vertical section of one form of mysaid invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of a modified formthereof. Fig. 3 is a section on the line AB, of Fig. 2. Fig. 4, is asection on said line AB, omitting the hereinafter described sack andball.

In the drawings, 1 is a mallet of any suit- 5 able material, having alongitudinally directed recess 1 formed in one of its ends, which recessis adapted to communicate with a transversely directed passage 1extending into or through said mallet. A. ball of any suitablestructure, preferably a hollow rubber ball such as a tennis ball, 2, isplaced in a sack 2 of any suitable fabric, the mouth end of which sackis gathered and drawn into said passage 1 through said recess, thus 2drawing a portion of said ball into said recess. The gathered end ofsaid sack is preferably secured in said passage by inserting a dowel pin3 (Fig. 1), or the end of an operating handle l (Figs. 2, 3 and 4) insaid passage parallel to the gathered end of the sack therein, therebyclamping or wedging said sack end between the pin or handle and the wallof said passage. When desired, the pin or handle may be withdrawn andthe sack or ball, or both of them, may be washed or repaired, or newones substituted. If a separate clamping pin 3, is employed, the handle4L may be inserted in an independent transverse passage in said mallet,as shown in Fig. 1.

The mouth of said recess l will conform approximately to the curvatureof the surface of a portion of said ball.

What I claim, is-

In a muscle beater, the combination of a mallet having a recess formedin one of its ends, said mallet having a clamp passage formed thereinextending at an angle to said recess and communicating with said recess,

a sack, a ball within said sack, the mouth of said sack being gatheredand extending through said recess into said clamp passage, meansextending into said clamp passage for clamping the end of said sacktherein.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix my 5 signature.

I-IUTGHIN SON L. BEVIER.

